402 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 







/ 





LETTER OF WILLIAM SWAINSON TO AUDUBON, MAY, 1828. 



From the Deane MSS. 



1838. In his use of English at this time Audubon 

 was not far behind Swainson, whose mother tongue it 

 was. Swainson, according to Dr. Giinther, was "ex- 

 tremely careless in orthography and loose in his style 

 of writing: he persistently misspelt not only technical 

 terms, but also the names of foreign authors, and even 

 of some of his familiar friends and correspondents; he 



